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Trends of Creative Effort in the United States
and the Rise of Woman in Various Fields
of Creative Endeavor
through Her Use of the Power of Manmade Machinery

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37. Alcatraz Island, site of a federal penitentiary, 1933-1963.

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38. Treasure Island, man-made site of the Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-1940, where Rivera painted the mural. He shows Arthur Brown Jr.’s Tower of the Sun and Pflueger’s Federal Building (the red rectangular structure).

40. Otto Deichmann, 1893-1964, German-born American architect who designed the Shasta-Cascade Building at the GGIE.

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41. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959, architect who was inspired by the American prairies and who also used pre-Columbian motifs in his work.

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42. Emmy Lou Packard, 1914-1998, Rivera's primary assistant in the mural project, a prominent artist and social activist, who led the effort to save the Rivera inspired Rincon Annex murals in San Francisco.

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43. Mona Hofmann's daughter.

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44. Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, and Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945, depicted as a trinity of tyrants emerging in a gaseous tree-like shape and surrounded by scenes from anti-fascist films. Although regarded as extreme opposites, the Communist Stalin and the fascists Hitler and Mussolini are here allies through the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact. Stalin holds a knife and bloody ice ax to echo a hammer and sickle emblem; the ax alludes to Stalin’s responsibility in the assassination of Trotsky.

Below this image the initials “G.P.U.” (the Soviet secret police) and the word “Gestapo” (the Nazi secret police) form a cross, as if to show their common purpose. Below them a World War I soldier in a gas mask lies fallen across barbed wire.

46. The arm and hand of an aroused America (emerging from the machine) halting the forces of ruthless aggression.

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47. Edward G. Robinson, 1893-1973, Rumanian born actor, and Francis Lederer, 1900-2000, Czech-born actor, depicted in a scene from the 1940 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Robinson and Lederer were also early collectors of Mexican art.

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48. Heinrich Himmler, 1900-1945, leader of the Nazi SS, in charge of Nazi concentration camps and known for “The Final Solution.”

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49. Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977, in The Great Dictator, in which he portrays both Adenoid Hinkle, a satire of Hitler, and a Jewish barber. Chaplin appears in this panel several times.

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Panel 4: Trends of Creative Effort in the United States and the Rise of Woman in Various Fields of Creative Endeavor through Her Use of the Power of Manmade Machinery